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The Monstrous-Feminine
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The Monstrous-Feminine (1993) (edit title/settings)

Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

by Barbara Creed (Author) (edit contributors)

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The Monstrous-Feminine examines how horror films play on men's fears of women. Barbara Creed argues that when a woman is constructed as monstrous, it is almost always in reference to her capacity to reproduce and to mother. Using detailed readings of Carrie, The Exorcist, Psycho and Alien... read more

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The honor film is populated by female monsters, many of which seem to have evolved from images that haunted the dreams, myths and artistic practices of our forebears many centuries ago.

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  1. Barbara Creed (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Country: England
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0415052599
Page Count: 192

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